FUNDAMENTALS OF DIVERSE
LEARNERS OA {2 VERSIONS}WITH
400 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS UPDATE A
GRADED{ACTUAL EXAM}
/. What Is progress monitoring used for? - Answer-✅Monitoring Academic and Behavior
progress
/.What Age is progress monitoring usually used for? - Answer-✅Elementary students.
But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
/.CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement) - Answer-✅Includes instruments or probes.
Has a short sample from the curriculum.
Includes items from across the curriculum to provide a representative indicator of the
students skills.
It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills being taught at the
moment.
/.What is the major difference between Tier 2 and 3 of support in MTSS - Answer-✅Tier
3 provides more instructional time but it also provides smaller groups.
Targets precise objectives at appropriate levels, systematic instruction, extensive
opportunities for practices, and increased error correction and feedback opportunities.
/.Tier 3 level of support - Answer-✅--Intensive--
The most intensive level of support provided (in addition to tier 1).
This intervention is geared toward skill growth and acquisition much more narrowly
focused.
/.Tier 2 level of support - Answer-✅--Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support ( Targeted
areas of need)
/.Tier 1 level of support - Answer-✅--Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
,/.What is one function of the home language survey for language students - Answer-
✅Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
/.Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? - Answer-✅They must
be assessed with a valid and reliable assessment to determine if they qualify for EL
services
/.A teacher observes disruptive behavior among a number of students, what should she
do? - Answer-✅Reduce long delays between activities to hold students attention
/.What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to sit near the
teacher in the first or second row? - Answer-✅Environment
/.What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class? - Answer-
✅Adjust assignments to include student interest
/.What is a student able to do in Early Production? - Answer-✅Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
/.What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading materials at
different reading levels to students? - Answer-✅Content
/.What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage? - Answer-✅Practice
pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
/.Stages of Second Language Acquisition - Answer-✅1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
/.Explicit Instruction - Answer-✅An instructional strategy that emphasizes group
instruction. The instruction offered should include a great deal of teacher-student
interactivity.
The teacher models the behaviors taught
/.Explicit instruction and implicit instruction - Answer-✅Two distinct methods of
providing instruction to diverse students and these are used for various student groups
depending on the functioning level and the subject area
/.Systematic Instruction - Answer-✅A carefully planned sequence for instruction, similar
to a builder's blueprint for a house. A blueprint is carefully thought out and designed
, before building materials are gathered and construction begins. The plan for instruction
that is systematic is carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before activities and
lessons are planned. Instruction is across the five components (phonemic awareness,
phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). For systematic instruction, lessons
build on previously taught information, from simple to complex.
/.3 characteristics of systematic instruction - Answer-✅Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
/.Progress Monitoring - Answer-✅Tests that keep the teacher informed about the child's
progress in learning to read during the school year. They are a quick sample of critical
reading skills that will tell the teacher if the child is making adequate progress toward
grade level reading ability at the end of the year.
/.Curriculum Based Measurement - Answer-✅Used to measure the growth of student's
proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
/.Differentiated Instruction - Answer-✅Practice of individualizing instructional methods,
and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional goals, to align with
each student's existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
/.Differentiated assessment - Answer-✅Allows more accurate measurement of what
students know, it can provide valuable information about learning profiles and
preferences.
/.Speech Emergence - Answer-✅Continues gaining vocabulary, communicates using
words with high semantic context, nouns, verbs, and adjectives, understands more than
they can communicate, more effectively in face-to-face interactions.
knows up to 3000 words
/.Co-teaching - Answer-✅In co-teaching arrangements, two or more teachers teach
together in the same classroom where students benefit from each teacher's specialty
(e.g., a regular and a special education teacher working with regular students and
students with a specific disability such as hearing impairments).
/.Acculturation - Answer-✅The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one
group under the influence of another.
/.Retention - Answer-✅Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture, while
adjusting to a new culture
/.The most common issue with implementing co-teaching effectively in school? -
Answer-✅Lack of planning time